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President Trump Endorses Bigot Who’s Been Banned From a Dozen Tech Platforms

President Donald Trump congratulated anti-Muslim hatemonger Laura Loomer over Twitter last night for winning the Republican primary in Florida’s 21st congressional district. Ironically, Loomer is banned from Twitter, but she likely heard about the tweet anyway, thanks to Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Republican who’s endorsed Loomer and her hateful ideology. Trump’s interest in Loomer may…

Politics Matt Novak Aug 19

Use This Online Tool to Find Out If You Can Vote by Mail Right Now

This was always going to be a tough presidential election. In 2016, Donald Trump spent a lot of time laying the groundwork to call the election illegitimate in the event that he lost. That year, the U.S. counted gerrymandering, Super PAC spending, and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act as hurdles to having a…

Politics Rhett Jones Aug 17

Trump Brags That He’s Trying to Sabotage the Postal Service to Rig the Election

Is Donald Trump deliberately undermining the U.S. Postal Service to sabotage the transit of mail-in ballots on Election Day? Abso-fucking-lutely, Trump said in an interview with Fox Business News on Thursday. Trump has long held an inexplicable grudge against the USPS, but it’s accelerated in recent weeks thanks to new management. Republican megadonor and pro-Trump…

Politics Tom McKay Aug 13

Key Unanswered Questions About Big Tech’s Election-Integrity Alliance

Ahead of the 2020 election, all eyes are on Silicon Valley as some of the biggest tech companies attempt to prevent the sorts of foreign election interference that plagued their platforms the last go around. And it looks like these typically fierce rivals have chosen to set aside their differences—at least for a little while—to…

Politics Shoshana Wodinsky Aug 13

National Review, Daily Caller Help Publicize Lies About Former Kamala Harris Staffer

According to leading conservative columnists, Twitter has hired Nick Pacilio, a former staffer for Sen. Kamala Harris, to decide which of President Trump’s tweets deserve to be fact-checked and which should be labeled for the public as “potentially misleading.” That’s news to Pacilio. To be clear, Pacilio has worked at Twitter for nearly six years;…

Politics Dell Cameron Aug 12

Trump Kisses QAnon Right on Its Big Wet Mouth

Donald Trump went there on Wednesday morning and endorsed a crank conspiracy theorist who recently won the GOP primaries for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, calling her a “future Republican Star” and a “a real WINNER!” Construction executive Marjorie Taylor Greene ran a fanatically pro-Trump campaign that ended with her crushing her closest challenger, neurosurgeon John…

Politics Tom McKay Aug 12

U.S. Agencies Sued for Records of Unmarked Agents Who Rounded Up Portland Protesters

A watchdog group investigating the deployment of federal police against protesters in Portland and other cities announced a lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department and other agencies on Friday, accusing government officials of unlawfully withholding public records under the Freedom of Information Act. American Oversight, a nonprofit staffed by several former U.S. government officials, is…

Politics Dell Cameron Aug 7

Senate Moves to Ban TikTok on Government Phones

The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Thursday prohibiting federal workers from downloading TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app the White House has recently threatened to ban citing national security concerns. The ban, which specifically applies to government devices, was approved via unanimous consent. (There was no vote, but no senator objected to its passing.) A…

Politics Dell Cameron Aug 6

Senators Worry Changes at Post Office Could Obstruct November Ballots

Democratic senators warned Friday that controversial changes to U.S. Postal Service procedures have raised concerns in Washington about the timely delivery of mail-in ballots ahead of the November election. Earlier this month, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy approved a controversial cost-cutting operation at the USPS, which Congress re-imagined last century as a hybrid government-corporation. In lieu…

Politics Dell Cameron Jul 31

Twitter Trends Are a Crime Against Me, the President, Tweets President

Today in squirmy little squids squirting clouds of ink: Twitter trends that make the president look bad are somehow illegal, according to the president. “So disgusting to watch Twitter’s so-called ‘Trending’, where sooo many trends are about me, and never a good one,” Donald Trump tweeted on Twitter, the site where he tweets anything he…

Politics Tom McKay Jul 27

Crappy Email Security Could Be the Next Big Threat to American Elections: Report

Given the embarrassing catastrophe that was the 2016 presidential election, staving off cyberattacks and foreign influence campaigns is a top priority for election officials nationwide as we get closer to November. Apparently, though, no one thought to apply that same level of scrutiny to their emails. Who’d have thought phishing scams would be the downfall of…

Politics Alyse Stanley Jul 26

Senators Seek to Rein In Federal Anti-Protest Forces

Ten Democratic senators are urging lawmakers with power over federal spending to explicitly prohibit Justice and Homeland Security Department officials from engaging with street protesters—as both are currently in Portland and other major cities, to sometimes injurious effect, in response to Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley led the call on…

Politics Dell Cameron Jul 24

Jared Kushner in Fight With Telecom CEOs Over Trump Campaign Texts Blocked By Anti-Spam System

Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and its de facto leader, his son-in-law and Jimmy Neutron wannabe Jared Kushner, is locked in an increasingly bitter feud with mobile networks preventing them from spamming millions of people with donation or get out the vote requests. Per Business Insider, the campaign was blocked from sending a surge of text…

Politics Tom McKay Jul 23

No, a Reporter Did Not Call the White House Press Secretary a ‘Lying Bitch’

An Al Jazeera reporter did not call White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany a “lying bitch” on Tuesday, despite claims to the otherwise by sizable contingent of pro-Donald Trump Twitter accounts. At a White House press conference late on Tuesday morning, Al Jazeera English reporter Kimberly Halkett asked McEnany whether the president was as focused…

Politics Tom McKay Jul 21

RIP Brad Parscale, Trump’s Digital Wizard Who Levitated Too Close to the Sun :(

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign manager and magically impotent “digital wizard” Brad Parscale has gone to that big dumping ground for washed-up Trump lackeys in the sky. Trump’s catastrophic handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic; the implosion of the economy; myriad scandals; and threats to send the military to shoot protesters against police racism and brutality…

Politics Tom McKay Jul 16

Can of Goya Beans, but It’s Actually Filled With Bees

This may look like the president possibly violating ethics rules by posing with several Goya products in a blurry Instagram photo to spite a loosely organized boycott over the company’s pro-Trump CEO. But watch out there, Mr. Trump: One of those delicious Goya foodstuffs is filled with bees. Gizmodo couldn’t confirm which Goya product contains…

Politics Tom McKay Jul 15

‘Least Racist Person There Is’ Retweets Video of Supporter Shouting ‘White Power’

If you somehow still had doubts about whether President Donald Trump is racist, here’s your answer, folks. On Sunday, the president retweeted a video of a pro-Trump procession at a retirement home in Florida where one supporter shouted “white power” twice while pumping his fist in the air. “Thank you to the great people of…

Politics Alyse Stanley Jun 28

How Long Will Trump Allow TikTokers to Make a Mockery of Him?

After K-pop stans took credit for the embarrassingly low turnout at Trump’s rally in Tulsa last week, the president waits to see what humiliation will befall the campaign next. The TikTok troops are plotting to claim more territory on donaldjtrump.com: the webstore. On Wednesday, a Twitter user instructed followers to load up their shopping carts…

Politics Whitney Kimball Jun 26

Here’s An Idea: The Trump Campaign Should Simply Take Over MySpace

Following a series of grievances with the social media networks that millions of people actually use, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is floating the idea of setting up shop on a new platform, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Well, there’s a perfectly good network sitting right there. Facebook has taken down some of the…

Politics Tom McKay Jun 24

Once Again, Mr. President, You Have Broken the Rules of the General Discussions Board

Our big boy president has once again angered the mods, with Twitter flagging another one of his tweets for violating its rules. On Tuesday, Donald Trump tweeted, “There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, D.C., as long as I’m your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!” (The autonomous…

Politics Tom McKay Jun 23

President Trump Endorses Bigot Who’s Been Banned From a Dozen Tech Platforms

Use This Online Tool to Find Out If You Can Vote by Mail Right Now

Trump Brags That He’s Trying to Sabotage the Postal Service to Rig the Election

Key Unanswered Questions About Big Tech’s Election-Integrity Alliance

National Review, Daily Caller Help Publicize Lies About Former Kamala Harris Staffer

Trump Kisses QAnon Right on Its Big Wet Mouth

U.S. Agencies Sued for Records of Unmarked Agents Who Rounded Up Portland Protesters

Senate Moves to Ban TikTok on Government Phones

Senators Worry Changes at Post Office Could Obstruct November Ballots

Twitter Trends Are a Crime Against Me, the President, Tweets President

Crappy Email Security Could Be the Next Big Threat to American Elections: Report

Senators Seek to Rein In Federal Anti-Protest Forces

Jared Kushner in Fight With Telecom CEOs Over Trump Campaign Texts Blocked By Anti-Spam System

No, a Reporter Did Not Call the White House Press Secretary a ‘Lying Bitch’

RIP Brad Parscale, Trump’s Digital Wizard Who Levitated Too Close to the Sun :(

Can of Goya Beans, but It’s Actually Filled With Bees

‘Least Racist Person There Is’ Retweets Video of Supporter Shouting ‘White Power’

How Long Will Trump Allow TikTokers to Make a Mockery of Him?

Here’s An Idea: The Trump Campaign Should Simply Take Over MySpace

Once Again, Mr. President, You Have Broken the Rules of the General Discussions Board

Berklee College of Music Offers AI Course, Students Are Pissed

US Renewable Power Generation Beats Natural Gas for the First Time, Defying Trump

Dan Stevens Cracks Open the Mouth of Madness in ‘The Terror: Devil in Silver’

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The Wicked Stepmother of ‘The Testaments’ Is So Much Fun to Hate

Apple’s Smart Glasses Are Stepping Into a Privacy Minefield

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Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

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